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Show FINE WINDOWS FOR ST. MARY'S Art Glass for New Cathedral to Be Placed in Position Soon. (Salt Lake Herald.) Immediately after the arrival of an expert from Chicago, who is expected daily, the work of placing in position the splendid art windows of St. Mary's cathedral will begin. Agents of the Royal Bavarian Glass company of Munich, Mu-nich, which manufactured the windows, have advised Bishop Laurence Scanian in a letter received a few days ago that the expert will be in Salt Lake before the end of this month. ! The windows have been in Salt Lake about two months. They have not been taken from their packing cases yet. and will not be disturbed until the expert arrives to take charge of the work. Bishop Scanian believes the windows will be in place about a month after the work on them begins. Of Fine Workmanship. Although the windows have not been seen oy any person in ait i.ake, the designs are known and Bishop Scanian has the assurance of the manufacturers manufactur-ers that the workmanship is unusually good. The Munich house took great interest in the contract because orders for work of this high grade have seldom sel-dom come from western America. The transept windows will be the largest in Utah, if not in the entire esu nipiiop seaman says ne DCiieves there may be larger windows in some of the Pacific coast churches, but he is certain that no windows of this size are in Utah. Each of the two will be thirty-three feet two inches high and nineteen feet four inches wide. The protective windows, made of glass one-fourth of an inch thick and designed to prevent damage to the art glass by the elements. Mere placed in position last fall, thus making it possible possi-ble to begin the work of placing the art glass as soon as the expert arrives. May Be Open in Year. The placing of the windows will be another great step toward the completion comple-tion of the great cathedral, which has been in course of construction almost seven years. The beautiful marble altar, al-tar, a gift of Miss Fannie E. O'Meara of Salt Lake, and the great organ are still to be built, but the work is now so well in hand that Bishop Scanian hopes to have the cathedral ready for opening in less than a year. The construction of the building has been under 'the personal direction of Bishop Scanian from the first. He said this week that one of the chief causes of satisfaction to him in connection with the cathedral is that no person has been injured in the seven years of work. There has been no accident of great consequence since work began. Musical Designs. The great circular rose window in the front of the church is a gift of the Altar society of the cathedral. The window will be twenty-two feet in diameter di-ameter and its center will be about fifty-five feet above the floor of the church and seventy-five feet above the sidewalk. The window will be directly behind the choir and the organ will be built around the window. The musical idea will be carried out in the designs of the window. St. Cecelia, seated in the attitude of playing the organ, will occupy the central circle. In the twelve other circles will be depicted the twelve most distinguished female musical saints in the history of the church, each with her favorite instrument in her hand. The diameter of this window is the same as. that of the railroad tunnels tun-nels leading under the river to New York City. A locomotive would pass through it with ease.N The large windows of the transept, nave and canffnorv fsftoa i.-. i . . , jn.i.t-n i i i iiuiiiuer, will portray fifteen mysteries of the rosary, each representing one of the principal scenes of the life of Christ. The nave, has eight windows and the sanctuary has two. List of Donors. The transept windows, already referred re-ferred to as the largest in the building, are gifts of Mrs. Mary Judge of Salt Lake, one as a memorial to her dead husband, John Julge. The nave windows are each twenty- six ieet six incites by five feet four inches. Two are gifts of Miss Ellen Hayes of Ely, Nev., one as a memorial to her dead brother, William Hayes. Mrs. Patrick Kerwin of Salt Lake gives one as a. memorial to her dead husband. hus-band. W. J. Halloran gives one as a memorial to Mrs. Halloran; Kearns' St. Ann's orphanage gives one as a' memorial me-morial to Patrick Phelan, who left all his estate to that institution: John Keogh gives one as a memorial to his wife; Thomas J.'. Lynch of Tonopah, Nev., gives one as a memorial to his father and mother, and Rev. D. Kiely gives one as a memorial to his father and mother. The five sanctuary windows are each eighteen feet by four feet nine inches. Peter Buller of Salt Lake gives one as a memorial to his wife; Richard Riepe of Ely, Nev., gives one: Mrs. W. Mc-Casklll Mc-Casklll gives one as a memorial to her husband; Archbishop W. P. Riordan of San Francisco gives one and one is a j memorial to Mrs. Thomas Marshall. Of the eight baptistry windows, each three feet nine inches by one foot eight inches, three are gifts of Bishop Scanian Scan-ian as memorials to some of his- humbler hum-bler friends who have died. The memorials me-morials are to Margaret Fitchett, Cornelius Cor-nelius Q'Keefe and M. Cullen. The other baptistry windows are gifts from the Junoir choir of St. Mary's, Stephen Lavin. Rev. M. Curran, P. Welsh and Mrs. Joseph Dixon of St. Louis. |